"Damn it!" Thor threw away the human skin in his hand and stepped forward to check on Izzy's condition.
The girl's skin became wrinkled almost instantly.
It's not that her skin has lost moisture as it ages, it's that her body beneath the skin is no longer plump.
The shriveled body cannot support the tender skin.
"Click."
The girl's charred left hand, whose skin had faded away, lost its support and fell to the ground, breaking into four pieces.
Perhaps it was the shock caused by the falling of the arm, but the skin on other parts of Izzy's body cracked to varying degrees.
And underneath the wrinkled skin, all that was exposed was black texture.
Just wipe it with your hand and black powder will fall out.
Such a person obviously cannot survive.
But Sol let Xiaozao pay attention to Izzy for such a long time, and he didn't notice when her insides turned into coke.
Even before her skin cracked, Thor only found traces of being entangled by evil spirits on her body, and did not find that the pollution had invaded the subcutaneous tissue.
"Tear-"
Xiaozao was originally wrapped around Izzy's waist.
It was covered by clothes and no skin could be seen.
But now, Izzy's body is slowly sliding down, and the area where the algae is rolled up begins to appear layer by layer.
Thor could imagine that if left alone, in a few seconds, the skin on Izzy's upper body would be taken off like a shirt.
"Put her down." Thor sighed.
Xiaozao quickly put the person on the ground.
At the moment of slight impact between the body and the ground, a large amount of black powder fell out from the cracks in the skin, distributing a human-shaped black dust circle.
"Master?" At this time, Morton walked in from the outside. "I found some remnants of evil spirits in the pipes, but there are also some strange friction marks on them."
He walked in and was shocked when he saw Izzy, "Is this?"
"I subdued an evil spirit outside. But the girl in this room is still dead. Maybe my previous idea was wrong. This girl, and the others who turned into charred corpses, did not die due to the pollution of the evil spirit. On the contrary, they are evil spirits who first die and then become evil spirits.”
"In this case, other factors caused their deaths." Morton analyzed.
"Yeah, and the transition from life to death was very fast. When I rushed into the room inside, she still had the breath of a living person. It only took a few breaths before she peeled off and died."
Moreover, she died from within. The outer skin is still intact, exuding residual vitality, which makes it impossible for me to accurately determine when it started to carbonize. "
While he was talking, Izzy, who was lying on the ground, suddenly moved.
As she moved, more skin began to tear under the friction, and more black powder fell down.
The girl seemed to come alive, stiffly and struggling to get up from the ground.
When she opened her eyes, her eyes were still intact, but they were dull and looked like two false eyes.
"water……"
A weak voice came from Izzy's mouth. She didn't notice Sol and Morton in front of her, turned around and walked slowly towards the table.
Thor did not stop the girl's movements. "She is now starting to turn evil. The first thing she did was to look for water."
Morton nodded, "It can be seen that although she has turned into an evil spirit, she still retains a trace of conscious memory from her life."
Sol raised his hand, looked at the black powder on his fingertips, and twisted it gently.
"When we subdued the evil spirit in this building last time, we saw it trying to open the door. Maybe the evil spirit didn't want to open the door to kill people..."
Moton struck each other with his fists, "It's looking for water!"
Saul suddenly thought of the dead intermediary a few months ago.
The evil spirit who took him away also had black powder on the ground. And the evil spirit takes people away through water pipes.
At the same time, the agent who was taken away did not appear charred, but insect legs grew under his head.
"It is basically certain that carbonized evil spirits cannot create new carbonized evil spirits. Therefore, every carbonized evil spirit appears because of other reasons. And this reason is spread throughout the city."
Sol and Morton looked at each other with ugly expressions.
Because they simultaneously thought of something that was also distributed throughout the city, or even wider.
Big tree underground!
Thor cleaned off the black powder on his palms and rubbed his forehead.
"This guy Kismet actually wants to give me a big tree as a gift."
Judging from the current abilities of this big tree, even if Thor can deal with some of its branches and roots, he is definitely no match for its body.
"The better thing for me at the moment is that this kind of pollution that will cause the interior to be blackened and carbonized will not be transmitted to the wizard. However, the main body of the big tree will actively attack the wizard. The last time it was in the underground waterway and the suburbs I have been attacked, which means he will attack secretly when no one is around."
This huge tree hidden beneath Archaeological Site is not harmless.
And how could Baidong College, which single-handedly developed Archaeological City into the wizarding college of its current size, be completely unaware of the existence of the underground tree?
Sol now even suspected that the person who planted this big tree and cultivated it was Baidong College.
Dean Pound and the witch named Bess obviously didn't tell the truth last time.
They took out a tree root and asked Sol if he had collected other roots. It was possible that they just wanted to observe how much Sol knew about the big tree and recover the roots left in the hands of others.
While Sol and Morton were trying to figure out the source of the pollution from the black scorched corpses, in a corner of the city, Char had already joined Wizard Julie.
After the two communicated in secret, Xia introduced Julie into the basement of the building next to her.
"Where are your clues?" Julie asked Xia Ya silently using the communication technique.
"I arranged for him to stay upstairs in this building."
"Then why did you go to the basement?"
Xia Ya turned back and took a deep look at Julie, "Because the pollution comes from underground."
Julie pulled the long hair on her chest, "Are you sure? How did you find out?"
"I have been observing these charred corpse-like evil spirits for a long time. I discovered a characteristic."
"What?" Julie leaned forward curiously.
As a result, Xia Ya raised her hand and pressed a wooden stick on Julie's shoulder to push her away.
"Don't get so close to me, be careful to trigger my automatic attack reaction arc."
Julie rolled her eyes, took a step back, and kept a distance of three meters from Xia Ya.
"Is this far enough? Say it quickly!"
"I found that these charred corpses will not create new charred corpses after they appear."
"You mean the contamination on the charred corpse won't spread again? That's a good thing."
"But it also shows that the source of pollution that turns people into charred corpses is not evil spirits. At least it is not this kind of evil spirit. I think it should be something else, even a wizard!"
Julie was shocked, "You mean there are monsters or wizards attacking ordinary people? And it's been going on for a long time?"
Although Julie is not that smart, she is not that stupid as a wizard.
After Xia Ya's reminder, she immediately knew that a monster or wizard that could attack ordinary people for a long time must be very powerful.
But Baidong College had no response.
Could it be that Baidong College didn't discover it?
Not too possible.
As the issuer of the sweeper mission, they must have more information in their hands. It is impossible for them to be unaware of the data that Xia Ya can calculate.
Julie became nervous when she thought of this, her fingers tightening her hair unconsciously, and a few long white hairs broke and fell to her arms.
Then she thought of something.
"Fortunately, this source of pollution only affects ordinary people at present."
As soon as she finished speaking, Julie saw Xia turning back and rolling her eyes.
"How can you be so comfortable? Now they can attack ordinary people, they can attack apprentices in the future, and they can attack us in the future!"
Seeing Julie glaring back angrily, Xia Ya was too lazy to say anything else.
"Let's go. According to the rules I summarized, my clue person has been marked and will be completely contaminated. According to previous experience, this pollution comes from underground."
I'm asking for a monthly pass in the basement.
(End of chapter)
